Counterdiabatic driving for periodically driven open quantum systems.

Abstract

We discuss dynamics of periodically driven open quantum systems. The time evolution of the quantum state is described by the quantum master equation, and the form of the dissipator is chosen so that the instantaneous stationary state is given by the Gibbs distribution. We find that the correlation between the population part and the coherence part of the density operator is induced by an adiabatic gauge potential. Although the introduction of the counterdiabatic term eliminates the correlation, additional correlations prevent convergence to the Gibbs distribution. We study the performance of the control by the counterdiabatic term. The system has three different scales and the performance strongly depends on the relations between their magnitudes. This article is part of the theme issue 'Shortcuts to adiabaticity: theoretical, experimental and interdisciplinary perspectives'.